Shaped by Time and Place

The Shaped by Time and Place showcase for ThinkingAboutPhotography is live and runs from August 3rd - September 6th.

This is the first of four “Conversations Across the Archives” exploring the intersections between the artists I’ve featured over the past five years. Up until now, my goal with each showcase has been to find new artists and see how broadly each theme could be interpreted. As part of my partial “curation sabbatical” this fall, I’m looking at what other connections can emerge when these artists are viewed in a different context.

I’m starting with a favorite theme - Time and Place.

We are all shaped by the times and places we have lived in, often in ways we barely notice while we’re there. Each has its own rhythms and unwritten rules that quietly influence how we see the world, other people and ourselves. It’s usually only after we’ve left that those influences become visible, distance has a way of revealing what once felt invisible.

Homeplace, 2005 - 2013 by Sarah Christianson
Growing Up Travelling by Jamie Johnson
Home Play by Lucas Leffler
St George: Ebb & Flow by Susan Lapides
Comalli by Lou Peralta
Oppenheimer's Chair by Meridel Rubenstein
Coahuila y Tejas by Kevin Tully
Tompo by Alexey Vasilyev

Use this link for the first conversation, featuring projects from a wide range of showcases: Community, Home Portraiture, Resistance, Staged, Object, Collage and How We Live. You will find a link to the original showcase at the end of each artist’s statement.

While you’re at the site, check out my most recent “Notables” post on Victor Schrager. I fell in love with his joyous use of color, then I found out what the Bee Line project is and loved it even more!